Raumism

English

Etymology

Calque of Esperanto Raŭmismo, after the Finnish town of Rauma +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹaʊmɪzəm/

Noun

Raumism (uncountable)

  1. (Esperantism) A conception of the Esperanto community as a self-chosen linguistic diaspora.
    Synonym: Raumismo
    • 1997 November 9, Donald J. Harlow <don@donh.vip.best.com>, “Re: conIAL Structural Type and Vocabulary Size”, in AUXLANG mailing list‎[1], via listserv.brown.edu:
      Mario Pei, in _One Language for the World_, has a chapter titled something like "The Inefficacy of Movements". He's right to doubt whether something like the Esperanto movement is a suitable vehicle for attaining the goal towards which it aims -- aside from the fact that it generally behaves like six cats dumped into a very small sack, it's also subject to such disruptive phenomena as meme change, since it operates on a multi-generational time scale (Raumism would have been totally unimaginable among Esperantists in 1907, for instance).

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